So much to see--theatres, crowds, fine houses--oh, you'll like that." There was a little ache in her fancy of all he described.

Her insignificance in the presence of so much magnificence faintly affected her.

She realised that hers was not to be a round of pleasure, and yet there was something promising in all the material prospect he set forth.
There was something satisfactory in the attention of this individual with his good clothes.

She could not help smiling as he told her of some popular actress of whom she reminded him.

She was not silly, and yet attention of this sort had its weight.
"You will be in Chicago some little time, won't you ?" he observed at one turn of the now easy conversation.
"I don't know," said Carrie vaguely--a flash vision of the possibility of her not securing employment rising in her mind.
"Several weeks, anyhow," he said, looking steadily into her eyes.
There was much more passing now than the mere words indicated.